Manufacture of carbon bisulphide



Dec. 247, 193.8. H. F. MERRIAM MANUFACTURE OF -CARBON BISULPHIDE 2 sheets-sheet 1 Filed Oct. 20, 1937 INVENTOB #62773/ /l/erfaf?? AT'ToR DeC- 27, 1938. H. F. MERRIAMl MANUFACTURE OF CARBON BISULPHIDE 42 sheets-sheet 2 www NSK lNvENTOR .Henry /L Mer/am BYrl/(M u ATTORNEY Patented Dec.'27, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT oEElcE 2,141,758A MANUFACTURE oF cAnoN isULrnmE Henry F. Merriam, West Orange, N. J., assigner to General Chemical Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application october 20, 1937, serial No. 169,967 c claims. (c1. ca -206) This invention relates to the manufacture of to the reaction is a problem always confronting carbon bisulphide and is more particularly dithe operator.

rected to production of carbon bisulphide by re- Recognizing the disadvantages encountered in acting sulphur in the form of vapor with solid the manufacture of carbon bisulphide in a large carbonaceous material. number of small retorts, such as just described, .5

Production of carbon bisulphide by reacting it has been proposed to carry out the reaction sulphur with carbon has been` proposed. In comin larger retorts. In such procedure, oxygen is mercial practice, however, only certain types of introduced into the reaction zone along with the solid carbonaceous' material` may be used besulphurcus gas, and the amount of oxygen is l0 cause, as is well known in the art, all forms of Y controlled so as to support combustion of a sufli- -10 carbon are not sufficiently active to combine cient amount of the carbon in the retort to geneconomically with sulphur. Metallurgical coke erate heat necessary to maintain the reaction. is an example of an insufficiently active form of The principal disadvantages inherent in such carbon. The carbonaceous material largely used prior proposals are (l) consumption in the rein commercial practice is wood charcoal, a relatort of a large amount of the relatively expensive 215 tively expensive material. Acid sludges consticarbon, e. g., wood charcoal, for purpose other vtuting waste products of hydrocarbon oil renthan combination with sulphur, and (2) producing processes in which sulphuric acid is used tion of relatively large quantities of carbon may be decomposed by heating to produce relaoxysulphide, formation of which is substantially tively large amounts of sulphur dioxide gas Vand promoted by the presence of the oxygen of the .20

. substantial quantities of solid carbonaceous cokeair introduced into the system Primarily 110 S1113- like residues. It has recentlyV been found that port combustion of carbon for heat generation. such acid sludge coke, when containing little or In the manufacture of carbon bisulphide, prono volatile matter, is a particularly active type duction of carbon oxysulphide is a troublesome of carbonaceous material and may also be used feature and something to be avoided as much ,25 to substantial commercial advantage as a source vas possible on account of sulphur loss as COS of carbon in the manufacture of carbon bisuland corresponding reduction of CS2 yields.

`phide. On account of the relative scarcity of One of the principal objects of the invention is carbonaceous `materials suitable for use in the to provide a process in which the CS2 forming manufacture of carbon bisulphide, it will be apreaction may be carried out in a large retort, x30 preciated such materials demand a premium on and in which process the heat necessary is supthe market. plied internally of the reaction zone but is fur- In the past, carbon bisulphide has been comnished in such a way as to avoid any appreciable monly produced by reacting sulphur vapor and consumption, for heat generating purposes, of

wood charcoal at high temperatures, e. g., around the expensive carbonaceous material used for 35 1450-1650" F., in externally heated pots or recarbon bisulphide production. To this end the torts. Such retorts are pear-shaped and small, invention aims to provide a method by which the being generally not more than about 30 inches heat necessary to maintain the endothermic CS2 in diameter. It has been impractical to make forming reaction and to offset radiation losses the retorts much larger because the high external may be supplied first by introducing sulphur into .40 temperatures required to force the necessary the system in the form of sulphur vapor, and heat to the center of the reaction mass would second by burning a relatively cheap form of be prohibitive. The retorts have been made of fuel, e. g. metallurgical coke, in a suitable gas cast iron and are relatively short-lived on acproducer or generator to form a bed of incancount of the deteriotating effects of they high descent coke, and then passing the sulphur vapor 45 temperatures externally applied and the corthrough the incandescent coke to further heat rosive effects of sulphur and carbon bisulphide the sulphur vapor to temperatures at least as produced. Furthermore, large numbers of such high as optimum carbon bisulphide forming reretorts are required to obtain production of caraction temperature, prior to introduction of the bon bisulphide in commercial quantities. Consesulphur vapor into the CS2 forming reaction 50 quently, installation and maintenance costs are zone. A large portion of the heat needed to high,V retort replacements constituting a large effect combination of sulphur and carbon is reitem of operating costs. Regardless of the'form quired to convert the sulphur used from the solid `in which sulphur is introduced, whether as sulto the vapor form. Accordingly, in the present phur vapor or sulphur dioxide, supply of heat process, a large part of the heat needed to main- 55 tain the endothermic CS2 forming reaction is brought into the system as heat of the sulphur vapor. Burning, e. g. by air-blasting, of the cheap fuel in the gas producer is regulated and continued for a time interval suii'icient to form a bed of hot coke of size and temperature such that on passage of the incoming stream of sulphur vapor through the bed, such vapor is heated to temperatures sufficiently high that on contacting the vapor with an active solid carbonaceous material, e. g. charcoal, suflicient heat is present to effect formation of carbon bisulphide. For example, such combustion is continued and regulated until there is formed in the producer a deep bed of incandescent coke at temperatures upward of about 2200 F. and preferably about 2500 F. or higher, i. e. substantially in excess of the temperatures required to effect combination of sulphur and carbon to produce carbon bisulphide. At the end of the air-blasting cycle, air supplied to the producer is shut off and the sulphur vapor, constituting the sourceof sulphur in the CS2 forming reaction, is passed through the bed of incandescent coke in the producer at a rate preferably such that while passing through the hot coke the sulphurous gas stream becomes heated to temperatures several hundred degrees in excess of the-,temperature necessary to effect combination oi carbon and sulphur to form carbon bisulphide. The highly heated sulphur vapor is then introduced into a reaction chamber containing a body of carbon sufficiently active to combine with sulphur tn form carbon bisulphide at the temperatures usually employed in CS2 production. VBy so proceeding, the heat needed'to maintain the CS2 forming reaction is brought into the reaction zone as heat of sulphur vapor and further quantities of heat added to the sulphur vapors by passing the same through the bed of incandescent metallurgical coke. The invention thus makes possible (l) internal supply of heat to the reaction Zone by combustion of cheap forms of fuel and without consumption of expensive reactive form of carbon for generating heat, (2) avoidance of excessive COS formation with consequent high sulphur losses, and (3) use of a large cheaply built and maintained reaction Vretort without consumption of expensivev active carbon for purposes of heat generation. Another object of the invention is to provide a method by which advantageous use may be made of the tail gases of the CS2 recovery system following the CS2 forming reaction zone.

The nature of the invention, the details, objects and advantages thereof may be more fully understood from a consideration of the following description taken in connection with the accom-V panying drawings, inV which Fig. 1 illustrates, partly in section and partly diagrammatic, a portion of a plant lay-out in which one embodiment of the process of the invention may be carried out, and

Fig. 2 similarly illustrates the second portion of the plant lay-out.

Referring to Fig. l of the drawings, |0 indicates generally a sulphur sublimer comprising a furnace and a chamber I2 adapted to contain a body of molten sulphur. Hot gases from furnace ow through nre-tubes I4, immersedV in molten sulphur, into header l5 and thence to spent gas stack i6. The sublimer is provided on top with a bin 2U equipped with any suitable type valve 2| by means of which sulphur may be continuously or intermittently charged into chamber |2 without escape of sulphur vapor.

Vapor formed in the sublimer flows through pipe 24, controlled by valve 25, into conduit 26 one end of which is connected with the pressure side of blower 21, the opposite end opening into a furnace indicated generally by reference numeral 39. Piping between the sublimer and furnace 3D may be covered with insulation to reduce heat loss andV deposition of sulphur; A pipe 32, having a control valve 33, communicates at one end with conduit 26, projects into chamber |2, and terminates at a point well below the level of molten sulphur indicated by dotted line 35. A vent pipe 38, controlled by valve 39, provides for discharge to the atmosphere' of some of the tail gases in the system.

Furnace 38, which may be circular in horizontal cross-section, is constructed so as to comprise what may be designated a gas producer section 4| and a CS2 forming reaction chamber 43; suc-h sections being formed by the outer circular furnace wall 44 and a diametrically extending Vertical partition 46 terminating short of the furnace crown 98 to form a passage 59 aiording communicationA between the upper ends of producer section 4| and reaction zone 43. Furnace 39 is provided with hopper bins 54 and 55 VinV Fig. l and partlyV in Fig. 2. By regulation of valve 66 inpipe 64 and valve 51 (Fig. l) gases may be discharged from the system through vent pipe 68. Y

Exit gases and vapors of furnace 3l! ow through pipe 64 into the bottom of sulphur condenser 'l2 whichV may be either air or water cooled, and liquid sulphur is discharged from the condenser through pipe 13 into a reservoir 14.

Cooled Yexit gases of condenser 72 ilow through conduit 16 into the upper end of a CS2 condenser 78,'preierably water cooled. Carbon bisulphide liqueed in condenser 'i8 runs through pipe 80 into receiver 8|. Uncondensed gases and vapors leaving the lower end of condenser 78 are fed by pipe B into the Ylower end of CS2 absorption section S6 of tower 8T. Section 86 is separated from a CS2 stripping still 89 in th-e lower end of tower 81 by an -imperforate partition 90. Absorption zone 86 may be iilled with suitable packing 92, supported by grille 93, and absorbing oil is introduced into Vthe top of Zone 35 by pipe 95. Effluent oil of zone 86, containing absorbed CS2, runs through pipe 91 into the top of stripping still 89. As indicated on the drawings, the stripping still section may include a plurality of shelves or chambers each provided with steam coils |0| and an opening |92 through which liquid falls to the next lower shelf. Stripped oil runs out of the bottom of the tower through pipe |95 into oil cooler |06 provided with water cooling coils |01. by pump |08 through pipe 95 into the top of absorption section 35. Carbon bisulphide vapors vaporized out of the absorbing oil in still 89 are returned by` pipe |||l to the top of CS2 condenser 88.

COOled 011 is ythen fedl "such as metallurgical coke.

Stripped gases discharged from the top of absorption section 86 flow through conduit H2 (shown partly on Fig. 2 and partly on Fig. l) to the inlet side of blower 21. Air may be drawn into conduit H2 on the suction side of blower 21 through pipe H4, controlled by valve H5.

In practicing the process of the invention, producer gas section 4I of furnace 30 is substantially filled to near the top of partition 46 with relatively low-priced solid carbonaceous material It is preferred to employ -carbonaceous material containing little or no hydrocarbons since the presence of hydrogen in the coke tends to give rise to the presence of hydrogen in the subsequent CS2 reaction with attendant increase in production of H2S.

Carbon bisulphide forming reaction zone 43 is substantially filled with a body of solid carbonaceous material of the type sufliciently active for use in the manufacture of carbon bisulphide. Wood charcoal is a suitable material. Another sufciently active type of carbonaceous material isacid sludge coke. Acid sludges may be destructively decomposed by externally heating in a suitable retort, the exit gas mixture of such retort comprising principally sulphur dioxide and waterl vapor, and smaller amounts'of carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon vapors. The acid sludge coke referred to herein constitutes the solid carbonaceous residue remaining in the .retort after destructive decomposition of acid sludge. Sludge coke resulting from low temperature destructive decomposition of acid sludges usually contains a large amount, for example 15G-40% of volatile matter, comprising chiefly hydrocarbons. Such volatile matter may Vbe driven off by heating at relatively high temperatures, e. g. 1200-1600 F. for a substantial period of time, say from 2 to 6 hours. Acid sludge coke if employed in the present process should contain substantially no and in any event not more than about 3% volatile matter.

Valve 25 in sublimer outlet pipe 24 andvalve 33 in pipe 32 are closed` and sublimer chamber l2 is charged with sulphur from bin 20. The fire in furnace ll isv started and thereafter controlled soy as to maintain in chamber l2 a body of moltensulphur at subliming temperatures.

vValves 66 in pipe 64, valve H1 in tail gas conduit H2 (Fig. 1) and valve 39 in vent pipe 38 are closed, valve 61 in discharge pipe 68, valve H6 in conduit 26, and valve H5 in air inlet pipe H4 are opened, and blower 21 is put into operation. After initial ignition of the metallurgical coke in gas producer section 4I, the quantity of air charged into section 4l by blower 21 and the depth of the bed of coke is regulated so that the coke is burned so as to produce a hot mixture comprising chiefly CO and nitrogen. While air-blasting producer section 4l, preferably care should be taken so as to form a CO-N2 gas containing as little CO1 as practicable so as to avoid possible consumption of expensive active carbon in section 43 in reducing such CO2 to CO when the exit Igas of producer section 4l is subsequently passed through'such active carbon.

Generally speaking, air-blasting of producer gas section 4| is carried on in substantially the same way as in well-known gas producer practice except it is desirable to avoid use of steam so as to obtain higher temperatures, and avoid as far 'as practicable presence of hydrogen and oxygen in the system. Air-blasting of the deep bed of metallurgical coke in section 4l is continued until there is formed a large bed of coke at temperatures such that when passing a stream of sulphur vapor through the bed such vapor is heated to temperatures sufficiently high that on contacting the so heated sulphur vapor with active carbon suiiicient heat is present to effect formation of CS2. Preferably, air-blasting is continued until there is obtained in the producer section 4l a deep bed of incandescent coke heated to temperatures of say 2200-2500 F. and upwards. The hot CO-N2 vgasformed in section 4l during air-blasting, at temperatures of say 2200-2500 F., flows through connection 50 and thence downwardly through the deep bed of active coke in chamber 43. Since Valve 66 in pipe 64 is closed and valve 61 in vent pipe 68 is opened, the spent gases vmay be discharged to the atmosphere or, since these gases contain substantial amounts of CO having substantial heat generating capacity, such gases may b e H. be rather fine-grained and impose considerable resistance during the heating up cycle when gas flow through the apparatus is relatively high, n

it may be desirable to vent some portion of the CO--N2 exit gas of chamber 4l through apipe connection (not shown) in the top of furnace 30. By the time air-blasting of the coke in producer section 4l has been continued until the temperature of the coke bed of the producer is around 2500 F. or higher, the active coke in reaction chamber 43 has become heated up to temperatures of the order of 150G-1600" F., in the neighborhood'of carbon bisulphide produc,- tion temperature. The process may now be taken off the air-blasting cycle and switched over to the carbon bisulphide production or make cycle.

Valve H5 in air inlet pipe H4, valve H6 in conduit 26, and valve 61 in vapor pipe 68 are closed, and valve H1 in tail gas line H2, valve 33 in pipe 32, valve 25 in sublimer outlet pipe 24, and valve 66 in CS2 vapor pipe 64 are opened. After the carbonbisulphide production cycle is under Way, the CS2 absorption Zone tail gases, which may contain by volume about 50% N2 and 50% COS and B2S, are drawn by blower 21 through pipe l I2 and into conduit 26. According to one feature of the invention, a portion of the tail gas is utilized to carry sulphur vapor from the sublimer into furnace 36. In normal operations around 20% of the tail gas may be employed for this purpose, and accordingly valve 33 in, pipe 32 (leading into the sublimer) and valve 39 in vent pipe 38 are adjusted so as to effect introduction into sublimer chamber l2 of say approximately 20% of the total volume of tail gas. Temperatures of 'ZOO-800 F. should be maintained in chamber l2,and the re gases from furnace H are controlled accordingly. The amount of tail gases introduced into the sublimer through pipe 32 are such that the gas leaving sublimer chamber l2 through exit pipe 24 comprises by volume roughly 50% sulphur vapor and 50% inert tail gas. gas, as described affords the material advantage of rapidly and smoothly feeding to the reaction zone a gas stream of fairly constant volume 4and composition.. Accordingly, a mixture of sulphur vapor and tail gas flows through conduit 26 and enters chamber 62 in the bottom of producer section 4l, .at temperatures of around 750- 760 F. One important feature of the improved process is use of vaporized sulphur. In the manufacture of CS2 from elemental sulphur, a large i Use o-f a portion of the tail burned any place about the plant as in furnace `2`0 Since the active carbon in chamber 43 may the sulphur about 1600 y@n.rtiori, Sav about half, of the total amount of heat required to eect combination of sulphur .and active carbon `is needed to melt and vaporize In the present process the heat necessary to melt and vaporize the sulphur may .be .obtained by burning the cheapest kind of fuel in furnace Il. The process has the advantage of vsupplyinga large portion of the total heat re- A,quirernent at relatively low temperatures of say 'Z50-800 F. rather than at high temperatures of F. which is the case when solid or molten sulphur is introduced directly into the CS2 forming reaction zone. Furthermore, by bringing into the system a large part of the heat required in the form of sulphur vapor, less heat Y absorption takes place in the CS2 forming reaction zone, thereby substantially increasing the length of the CS2 production cycle.

. The sulphur vapor is flowed upwardly through the hot coke bed at a rate controlled so that the vapor becomes highly heated to temperatures several hundred degrees in excess of that necessary `to eiect combination of sulphur and carbon to form carbon bisulphide. For example, sulphur vapor may be withdrawn from producer .section 4I at temperatures above 1600 F. and

usually around 2000 F. or higher, especially at the beginning .of the carbon bisulphide production cycle. Although the metallurgical coke is insufficiently active to veffect any appreciable commercial production, some CS2 may be formed. H owever, any reduoible compounds, such as SO2, H2O and CO2 which may possibly be present in small amounts in the incoming sulphur vapor stream are reduced in section 4|, thus avoiding `consumption for this purpose of expensive active .carbon in reaction zone 43.

At the beginning of the carbon bisulphide pro- `duction cycle, the temperature of Ythe sulphur vapor introduced into the top of reaction zone .43 is at a maximum, e. g. of the'order of 2000 F. or above and is hence considerably in excess of the optimum temperatures for carbon bisulphide production. The sulphur vapor entering the top of reaction chamber 43 at initial maximum temperature first imparts substantial quantities of heat to the upper layers of carbon and on'continued downward Ypassage gradually becomes cooled to the temperature range at which best yield of carbon bisulphide may be obtained. Indications are that most satisfactory production o f carbon bisulphide is obtained at temperatures generally of the order of 1460-1560o F. A deep bed of active carbon is maintained in reaction chamber .43 for the purpose of providing a reser- Voir for substantial quantities of heat. The depth of the bed of carbon in chamber 43 is maintained such that no matter how high may be the temperatures of the sulphurous gas at the point .of rst Contact with carbon, the bed is of suflcient depth so that someplace below the top of the bed there exists a Zone of substantial size in which optimum CS2 rproduction temperatures prevail. As the reaction proceeds, the temperature of the incoming sulphur vapor decreases and the sulphur vapor begins to reabsorb heat from the upper layers of hot carbon in the reaction chamber. Hence, as the CS2 production cycle progresses, the zone of optimum reaction temperature in the coke in reaction chamber 43 rises and approaches the top of the bed. Temperatures in different parts of the carbon bed in the reaction chamber may be determined by suitable means, and when the temperature in the upper layers o f the coke decreases to say 1500 carried by pipe 64 into the lower end of sulphur condenser 'l2 which is air or otherwise cooled so that the exit gases of the condenser enter pipe 'i6 at temperatures of about 250 F. If desired, a waste heat boiler, not shown, may be interposed between reaction chamber 43 and condenser 12, and some of the heat contained in the reaction gases thus recovered in the form of steam. During cooling in condenser 72, whatever small quantities of sulphur may be contained in the reaction gases are liquefied, collect in the bottom of condenser 12, and flow thence through pipe 13 into receiver 14.

Condenser T8 is operated so as to effect cooling of the vapors and gases to around 80-100 F. Condenser 'I8 may be desirably refrigerated so as to eiect liquefaction of maximum quantities of carbon bisulphide which flows out of the condenser through pipe 80 into carbon bisulphide receiver 8|. Exit gases of condenser 'I8 flow through pipe zone 86. Any suitable oil, e. g. a hydrocarbon oil such as straw oil, adapted to absorb CS2, may be introduced into the top of the absorption zone from pipe 95, and rate of downow of oil is controlled by a suitable valve so as to -eiect absorptionY of substantially all of the CS2 contained in the upwardly flowing gases. Proper rate of ilow of oil through the absorption zone may be readily determined to suit any particular set of operating conditions. In this way, substantially all of the CS2 of the gas stream becomes absorbed in theroil and is-thus separated from the remaining relatively inert reaction gases which are discharged from the absorption zone into tail gas conduit H2.

, 'I'he eilluent oil of absorption zone 3B, containing absorbed CS2, runs through pipe 91 into CS2 stripping still 89. Steam may be circulated through steam coils ll so as to maintain temperatures of approximately 212 F. in the stripping Zone. Carbon bisulphide vapors liberated flow through pipe Il!) back into the top ofV condenser 18. Stripped oil runs from the bottom of still 89 into cooler M96 in which the oil is cooled to about 100 F. and is returned by pump H38 to the top of absorption zone 86. y

During the carbon bisulphide production cycle, tail gases (conduit I I2) which may consist by volume of approximately 50% nitrogen and 50% COS and H2S are utilized in sulphur sublimer l0 or vented to the atmosphere through pipe 38 as previously described.

Temperatures, of different parts of the carbon bed in reaction chamber 43 may be determined by any suitable means, and when the temperature in the upper layer of the carbon decreases to about 1500 F. the system should then be taken off CS2 production and switched back to the airblasting cycle. At this point, valve in sublimer outlet pipe 24 and valve 33 in pipe 32 is closed, l

84 into the bottom of absorptionsuch a period of time until substantially all of the carbon bisulphide and unreacted sulphur are removed from chambers "ai and 43. n this WayV the CS2 and sulphur left inV the tWo beds of carbonaceous material is recovered. The system is now ready for repetition of the air-blasting cycle which is thencarried out as previously described.

In the appended claims the terms active carbon, and active carbonaceous material are intended to define a type of active carbon such as Wood charcoal or acid sludge coke sufficiently active to combine with sulphur to form carbon bisulphide, and substantially free from Volatile matter.

I claim:

1. The method for making carbon bisulphide which comprises introducing sulphur into-a vaporizing zone, vaporizing sulphur therein, burning solid carbonaceous material to iorm an initial bed of hot solid carbonaceous material, regulating and continuing combustion of said material for a time interval suflicient to forni a bed of hot solid carbonaceous material of size and temperature such that on passage of a stream of sulphur vapor through the bed ysuch vapor is heated to temperatures suiciently high that on contacting said sulphur vapor with an active carbon-aceous material sufficient heat is present to effect formation of carbon bisulphide, discontinuing such combustion operation, passing through said initial bed a stream comprising said sulphur vapor to further heat the same, contacting the thus heated sulphur vapor stream with a body of active solid carbonaceous material to eliect combination of sulphur and carbon to form carbon bisulphide, separating carbon bisulphide from residual inert reaction gases, recovering carbon bisulphide, and passing a current of said residual gases into said vaporizing zone and thence into said initial bed of carbonaceous material to thereby smoothly and rapidly introduce sulphur vapor into cont-act with said carbonaceous material.

2- The method for making carbon bisulphide which comprises introducing sulphur into a vaporizing zone, vaporizing sulphur therein, burning solid carbonaceous material to form an initial bed of hot solid carbonaceous material, regulating and continuing combustion of said material for a time interval sufficient to form a relatively deep bed of incandescent solid carbonaceous material heated to temperatures several hundred degrees in excess of optimum temperatures for effecting combination of sulphur and active carbon to form carbon bisulphide, discontinuing such combustion operation, passing through said initial bed a stream comprising said sulphur vapor at a rate such as to heat the same to temperatures substantially in excess of optimum carbon bisulphide formation temperatures, contacting the thus heated sulphur vapor stream with a body of active solid carbonaceous material of sufiicient depth that in a zone of substantial size optimum temperatures for formation of carbon bisulphide prevail, separating carbon bisulphide from residual inert reaction gases, recovering carbon bisulphide, and passing a current of said residual gases into said vaporizing zone and thence into said initial bed of carbonaceous material to thereby smoothly and rapidly introduce sulphur vapor into contact with said carbonaceous material.

3. The' method for making carbon bisulphide which comprises introducing sulphur into arvaporizing zone, vaporizing sulphur therein, burning solid carbonaceous material to form a hot carbon monoxide gas and an initial bed of hot solid carbonaceous material, regulating and continuing combustion of said material for a time interval sufiicient to form a bed of hot solid carbonaceous material of size and temperature such that on passage of a stream of sulphur vapor through the bed such vapor is heated to temperatures suiiiciently high that on cont-acting said vapor with an active carbonaceous material suflc-ient heat is present to eiect formation of carbon bisulphide, passing said hot carbon monoxide gas during said time interval through a bed of active carbonaceous material to heat the same to temperatures approaching carbon bisulphide formation temperature, discontinuing such combustion operation, passing through said initial bed a stream comprising said sulphurvapor to heat the same, contacting the thus heated vapor stream with said body of active solid carbonaceous material to effect combination oi' sulphur and carbon to form carbon bisulphide, separating carbon bisulphide from residual inert reaction gases, recovering carbon bisulphide, and passing a current of s-aid residual gases into said Vaporizing zone and thence into said initial bed of carbonaceous material to thereby smoothly and rapidly introduce sulphur vapor 'into contact with said carbonaceous material.

4. The method for making carbon bisulphide which comprises introducing sulphur into a vaporizing zone, vaporizing sulphur therein, burning solid carbonaceous material to form a hot carbon monoxide gas and an initial bed of hot solid carbonaceous material, regulating and continuing combustion of said material for a time interval sufficient to form a relatively deep bed of incandescent solid carbonaceous material heated to temperatures several hundred degrees in excess of optimum temperatures for effecting combination of sulfur and active carbon to form carbon bisulfide, passing said hot carbon monoxide gas during said time interval through a bed of active carbonaceous material to heat the same to temperatures approaching carbon bisulphide formation temperature, discontinuing such combustion operation, passing through said initial bed a stream comprising said sulphur vapor at a rate such as to heat the same to temperatures substantially in excess oi optimum carbon bisulphide formation temperature, contacting the thus heated vapor With said body of active solid carbonaceous material of sufficient depth that in a zone of substantial size optimum temperatures for formation of carbon bisulde prevail, separating carbon bisulde from residual inert gases, recovering carbon bisulphide, and passing a current of said residual gases into said vaporizing zone and thence into said initial bed of carbonaceous material to thereby smoothly and rapidly introduce sulphur vapor into Contact with said carbonaceous material.

5. The method for making carbon bisulde which comprises air-blasting a body of solid carbonaceous material to form an initial bed of hot solid carbonaceous material, regulating and continuing combustion of said material for a time interval sunicient to form a bed of hot solid carbonaceous material-ofsize andtemperature such thatl on passage ofa stream of 'sulphurV vapor` through the bedsaidvapor is heated-to temperatures sufciently high that -on contacting'said vapor with an active Vcarbonaceous material sufficient heat is present to eiect formation of carbon bisulphide, discontinuingl such vair-blastingv operation, passing throughv said initial bed a stream comprising said sulphur vapor to further heat lthe same, contacting the thus heated Vapor with a body of active solid carbonaceous material to eiect combinationof sulphur and carbon-to form carbon bisulphide, separating carbon bisulphidefrom residual inert reaction gases, recovering carbonA bisulphde, repeating air-blasting after temperature in said body of active carbon has dropped to not Yless thanabout optimum carbon bisulphide formationtemperature, and prior to' each air-blasting passing a current of said inert residual-'gases throughsaidbeds of carbonaceous material to-purge the same.

6L The method for making carbon bisulphide Whichv comprises air-blasting a body of solid carbonaceous material to form an initial bed of hot solid carbonaceous material, regulating and continuing,combustion.V of, saidi material for@ af time interval sufficient to L form a "relativelyl `deep bed; of incandescent so1id-..carbonaceous materiali heateditotemperatures several hundred degrees in excess ofoptimum temperatures forfeffecting combination of sulphur and active carbon to form carbon. bisulphide, discontinuing .such air-blasting operation, passingv through saidfinitial` bed a stream comprising sulphur vapor at a rate such as to heat thesame to temperatures substantially.- 

